Mayor Johnson wants City Council to impose moratorium on data centers

Chicago should impose a temporary moratorium on new or expanded data centers until permanent regulations are established to mitigate their impact on the power grid, the water supply and the environment, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday in a move that an influential alderperson called a “political stunt.” Johnson also

Sean James works at Nvidia as a distinguished engineer. Sean James Sean James is a distinguished engineer at AI chipmaker Nvidia focused on powering data centers. James started his career as a submarine electrician in the Navy and previously spent 25 years building data centers at Microsoft. He makes the case that AI